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Past recipients of the AME Mentored Innovations Award

2023-2024 AME Medical Education Award

Culinary Medicine SER Week Curriculum for Medical Students
Marissa Love, M.D.- PI
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
AME Mentor: Margaret Smith, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health

Beyond the Feedback: A Student-Directed CBCL Review Committee
Jessica Newman, DO- PI
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
AME Mentor: Joseph Fontes, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Assessing the Impact of Dual Roles in Medical Education: Perspectives from Student-Parents
Tessa Rohrberg, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine- Wichita
AME Mentor: Kari Nilsen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine- Wichita

2021-2022 AME Medical Education Award

Understanding Medical Student Perceptions of the Learning Community in Achieving Structural Competency
Carrie Francis, M.D.- PI
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
AME Mentor: Margaret Smith, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health

Re-evaluation of the Clinical Objective Measures: Creating an OSCE through the eyes of RIME
Jennifer Fink, M.D.- PI
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
AME Mentor: Jessica Newman, DO
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

Experiential Learning and How Medical Students Choose a Specialty (ELMSS study)
Erin Hecker, M.D.- PI
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
AME Mentor: Scott Moser, M.D.
Associate Dean for Curriculum, Professor of Family & Community Medicine- Wichita

2020-2021 AME Medical Education Grant

The Relationship Between Medical Student Enrichment Activities and Entrustable Professional Activities
Dorothy Hughes, Ph.D., MHSA- Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health- Kansas City
AME Mentor: Tyler Hughes, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery

Enhancing Developmental Disability Education for Medical Students
Leni Swails, Ph.D. - Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics- Kansas City
AME Mentor: Buddy Poje, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences- Kansas City

2019-2020 AME Medical Education Grant

The Neighborhood Table
Patricia Fitzgibbons, M.D.- PI
Joseph LeMaster, M.D., MPH- Co-PI/AME Mentor
Department of Family Medicine
Kansas City

Introduction of High-Value Care in Preclinical Years Through PBL
Megan Krause, M.D.- PI
Gary Doolittle, M.D.- AME Mentor
Department of Internal Medicine
Kansas City

Online Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Curriculum: closing the education gap
Jessica Newman, DO- PI
Isaac Opole, M.D., Ph.D.- AME Mentor
Department of Internal Medicine
Kansas City

Use of web-based 3D interactive anatomy to enhance student learning
Brenda Rongish, Ph.D.- PI
Peter DiPasco, M.D.- AME Mentor
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

2018-2019 AME Medical Education Grant

Evaluating cultural and structural competence: impact of the ACE curriculum and PBL group diversity
Joseph LeMaster, M.D., MPH- PI
Department of Family Medicine
Kansas City

ACE v. Legacy: Impact of Pre-Clinical Curricula on Impostor Syndrome in Third Year Medical Students
Beth Levant, Ph.D.- PI
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics
Kansas City

Understanding the Impact of Year 1 of the ACE Curriculum from the Perspectives of Frontline Teachers and Leadership: A Qualitative Study
Joanna Brooks, Ph.D., MBE- PI
Department of Health Policy & Management
Kansas City

2017-2018 AME Medical Education Grant

Interactive, personalized and flipped classroom simulation experiences utilizing hemodynamic monitoring for medical education
Brigid Flynn, M.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
Kansas City

Student Perspectives on the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)
Kari Nilsen, Ph.D.
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Wichita

The Immersive Learning Experience: building an interprofessional, multi-location addiction medicine clinic into family medicine clerkship
Laurel Witt, M.D.
Department of Family Medicine
Kansas City

2016-2017 AME Medical Education Grant

Competency in Performing a Basic Head & Neck Examination
Carrie L. Francis, M.D.
Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
Kansas City

Mapping the Gaps in Medical Education: Development of a Curricular Thread to Address Unconscious Bias
Jana K. Zaudke, M.D., MA
Department of Family Medicine
Kansas City

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University of Kansas Medical Center
KU School of Medicine Office of Medical Education
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Kansas City KS 66160
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